a few of my friends got tested for usfs moves in the field testing today. what is it and can i do it?|||Moves in the Field (aka: MITF or "Moves") is a testing structure introduced to improve the overall basic skating skills. Moves in the Field tests involve demonstrating command of skating maneuvers like crossovers, spirals, edges, and turns with control and speed. They are part of the USFSA's standard track of tests, which is totally separate from the Basic Skills program testing. Some skaters stop taking Basic Skills lessons and switch over to private lessons entirely.
There are eight Moves tests - Pre-Preliminary, Preliminary, Pre-Juvenile, Juvenile, Intermediate, Novice, Junior and Senior. There are also four Adult Moves tests available for skaters over 21. The tests are taken in order starting with Pre-Preliminary, during a very formal skating session where one or more judges evaluate the skaters individually. Each Moves test consists of four or more "patterns" that the skater must perform correctly. I linked the Moves test page below - check out each tests' patterns to see the steps and manuevers required. It's very different than having the instructor evaluate your next class level in Basic Skills.
After a skater passes a specific Moves test, they are eligible to take the corresponding Freeskate test. Based on these tests, skaters can compete in non-Basic Skills competitions at their highest test level. Skaters who test up to Juvenile or higher can compete in qualifying competitions that start locally and lead to the national competitions.
Your first step is to select a private coach to teach you the patterns and prepare you for the testing. The coach can guide you through the skating club membership and signing up for the test session.
The silence during Moves testing is deafening. Every skater should make an effort to go and observe one or more test sessions before they sign up to test.|||Skaters must take and pass each test in order. Everyone starts at the first test, which is Pre-Preliminary. Some Pre-Preliminary patterns are scattered among the Basic Skills' Freeskate tests, so you might know how to do some of them already. (Ex: Edges on the Line)
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|||MOVES IN THE FIELD 鈥?NEW TESTS TO TAKE EFFECT SEPT. 2, 2010
The members of the Moves in the Field Task Force are pleased to present our revisions to the current testing structure. We were charged with the duty of examining the current tests with two goals in mind:
1. To find methods to shorten the length of tests while still allowing the skater to demonstrate important skills bilaterally
2. To re-introduce skills that have been part of figure skating for decades but were not included in the original introduction of the moves tests
Many of the current moves ask the skater to perform a skill in one direction, stop and perform the skill in the opposite direction. Sometimes it's clockwise to counter-clockwise, and sometimes it's forward to backward, but we have taken several of these moves and revised them to flow continuously - saving time without sacrificing what the skater is meant to learn from the skill. These improvements will not only save valuable ice time during tests but also lesson and practice time.
Moves were originally created to help preserve the form and accuracy of the turns that are an essential part of figure skating, but loops and twizzles have been overlooked until now. New patterns including these turns complement the threes, brackets, counters and rockers that have been part of the moves structure since its inception. While new moves are being introduced, some current moves are also being deleted from the test structure. Overall, we believe we have retained the best of the old moves tests and added new moves to present a logical and progressive test structure.
The links below lead to the new tests. Video examples of the new and revised moves are presented here, and eventually all moves will be included to provide a resource center for the entire new moves test structure. Diagrams and descriptions are available here for all the moves. This web site will be updated frequently, so keep checking for new information as we approach the Sept. 2, 2010, implementation date.|||talk to your coach about it
there a book and every level has different moves,
you go out and perform just those moves for that level and if the judges think we preformed well you pass. you keep trying till you eventually pass.
its pretty intimidating at first but if you practice enough the judges will score you good.
GOOD LUCK
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